Quotes About Contradiction

You're better off, d'Aiglemort said dryly. Steel and faith are an unnatural mix.

Elu jaatamine pole muud kui teatavat sorti mõte surmast. See pole ei vastandumine ega ka ükskõiksus surma suhtes. Tõepoolest, võiks peaaegu öelda et midagi vastupidist, kui see poleks omakorda liiga lihtne vastandumisele järele andmine

You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be expelled from a mission where love is not.

It means that a man is continually revolting against an effect without, while all the time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

she was disquietingly fluid — fluid, without, however, being able to flow.

The principles were Blindness, Loneliness, and Terror, the first principle necessarily and actively cultivated in order to deny the two others. I would love to believe that the principles were Faith, Hope, and Charity, but this is clearly not so for most Christians, or for what we call the Christian world.

But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. --"The Crusade of Indignation," in Nation (New York, 7 July 1956; repr. in The Price of the Ticket, 1985)     It

It's the brandy, Pilot, that an' fornication an' the saintly life I've led.

Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must allow it to be given. The soft will overcome the hard. The slow will beat the fast. Don't tell people the way, just show them the results.

I know people might think I'm strong or tough, but I'm really not. I'm a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.

I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.